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Senior Development Officer

Full-time

Philanthropica

La version française se trouve ci-dessous

About the Role

The Senior Development Officer is a revenue-generating role. Yaldei is seeking an autonomous, results-driven professional who is comfortable speaking about money, making direct asks, and guiding conversations toward meaningful investment. This seasoned fundraiser will balance short-term goals with long-term vision to help build a reliable income stream for the organization. The ideal candidate will actively bring prospective donors to experience Yaldei firsthand while pursuing new opportunities for revenue generation. Proactive and relationship-driven, they will creatively identify and engage new donors, tailor interactions to individuals and situations, and maintain strong stewardship and follow-through.

The only one of its kind in Quebec, Yaldei is a not-for-profit developmental centre and school devoted to helping children reach their full potential. Yaldei is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team of experienced therapists and educators dedicated to early intervention treatment, individualized therapies and special education programs for children from birth to 21 years.

Our integration of advanced clinical, behavioral, educational and family support services provides children with the opportunity to learn how to walk, talk, play, attend school and lead productive lives as part of their community.

Primary Responsibilities

Fundraising

  • Identify and cultivate new funding opportunities (individual, corporate, and governmental)
  • Increase overall donations by acquiring new donors through in-person visits, meetings, email outreach, letter writing, and phone calls, soliciting current donors, and re-engaging lapsed donors
  • Move donors through the pipeline by building and maintaining relationships through ongoing stewardship
  • Manage and grow a portfolio of prospective and existing donors, with a focus on Major Gifts
  • Draft grant proposals, impact reports, donor communications, and other related materials
  • Leverage organizational events to engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward potential and existing donors
  • Work with the Executive Director to ensure that fundraising strategies align with the organization’s mission and funding needs
  • Support leadership and volunteers with individual fundraising and donor relations efforts

Outreach & Volunteer Management

  • Secure, organize, and lead tours of Yaldei for existing and potential donors
  • Engage volunteers in meaningful and appropriate fundraising efforts, supporting and managing volunteer committees as needed
  • Increase the organization’s visibility through targeted outreach and relationship building with potential organizational and community partners

Donor Cultivation and Relationship Management

  • Oversee the timely acknowledgment of donations, impact reports, etc., working with outside providers as needed
  • In collaboration with the Events Team, plan and coordinate fundraising and donor recognition events and other initiatives to recognize, retain, and grow existing donors
  • Build and execute on a culture of pro-active and ongoing stewardship and donor engagement.

Data Management

  • Optimize, administer, and maintain the CRM database with regularity and precision
  • Generate donor and other fundraising-related reports to guide fundraising strategy and decision-making

Core Professional Competencies

The successful candidate will:

  • Build and sustain strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
  • Execute strategic outreach, including cold calling and new relationship development
  • Approach gift solicitation with confidence
  • Work proactively, and with a strong sense of ownership
  • Exercise discretion and professionalism and act with integrity in all interactions
  • Engage respectfully and effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those with varying health experiences

Professional Qualifications

  • Robust understanding of best practices in fundraising, stewardship, and donor relations
  • Previous fundraising experience in a major gift role for a minimum of 2 years
  • Excellent research and writing skills
  • Polished presentation and public speaking skills
  • Fully bilingual, written and oral, in both French and English
  • Proficiency in required software, including MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, etc.), and experience with data management software and/or other customer relationship management (CRM) systems

Submitting your candidacy

Please email your CV and a brief letter of interest to Avigail Aronoff at ***email_hidden***

Version française

À propos du poste

Le ou la Responsable principal(e) du développement occupe un poste axé sur la génération de revenus. Yaldei recherche une personne autonome, orientée vers les résultats et dotée d’un esprit de croissance. Professionnel(le) chevronné(e) en collecte de fonds, vous serez à l’aise de parler d’argent, de faire des demandes directes et d’orienter les conversations vers des investissements significatifs. Vous contribuerez à bâtir une source de revenus stable en conciliant objectifs à court terme et vision à long terme.

La personne idéale cherchera activement à faire découvrir Yaldei à de nouveaux donateurs potentiels et à développer de nouvelles occasions de financement. Proactif(ve) et créatif(ve), vous développerez des relations durables, saurez mobiliser de nouveaux donateurs et adapterez vos interactions selon les personnes et les contextes, tout en assurant un suivi rigoureux et constant.

À propos de nous

Unique en son genre au Québec, Yaldei est un centre de développement et une école à but non lucratif consacrés à aider les enfants à atteindre leur plein potentiel. Yaldei regroupe une équipe multidisciplinaire de thérapeutes et d’éducateurs expérimentés dédiés à l’intervention précoce, aux thérapies individualisées et aux programmes d’éducation spécialisée pour les enfants de la naissance jusqu’à l’âge de 21 ans. Notre intégration de services cliniques, comportementaux, éducatifs et de soutien familial avancés offre aux enfants la possibilité d’apprendre à marcher, parler, jouer, fréquenter l’école et mener une vie productive au sein de leur communauté.

Principales responsabilités

Collecte de fonds

  • Identifier et développer de nouvelles opportunités de financement (individuelles,
  • corporatives et gouvernementales)
  • Augmenter les dons globaux en acquérant de nouveaux donateurs par des visites en
  • personne, des rencontres, des courriels, des lettres et des appels téléphoniques, en
  • sollicitant les donateurs actuels et en réengageant les anciens donateurs
  • Faire progresser les donateurs dans le cycle philanthropique en développant et
  • maintenant des relations grâce à une stratégie continue de fidélisation
  • Gérer et développer un portefeuille de donateurs potentiels et existants, avec un accent
  • particulier sur les dons majeurs
  • Rédiger des demandes de subventions, des rapports d’impact, des communications aux
  • donateurs et tout autre matériel connexe
  • Tirer parti des événements organisationnels afin d’engager, de solliciter et de fidéliser
  • les donateurs potentiels et existants
  • Collaborer avec le Directeur général afin de s’assurer que les stratégies de collecte de
  • fonds soient alignées avec la mission et les besoins financiers de l’organisation
  • Soutenir la direction et les bénévoles dans leurs efforts de collecte de fonds et de
  • relations avec les donateurs

Rayonnement et gestion des bénévoles

  • Organiser et diriger des visites de Yaldei pour les donateurs actuels et potentiels
  • Mobiliser les bénévoles dans des activités de collecte de fonds significatives et appropriées, et soutenir ou gérer les comités de bénévoles au besoin
  • Accroître la visibilité de l’organisation par des activités ciblées de rayonnement et de développement de relations avec des partenaires communautaires et organisationnels potentiels

Développement et gestion des relations avec les donateurs

  • Superviser les remerciements de dons, les rapports d’impact et autres suivis, en collaboration avec des fournisseurs externes au besoin
  • En collaboration avec l’équipe des événements, planifier et coordonner les événements de collecte de fonds et de reconnaissance des donateurs ainsi que d’autres initiatives visant à reconnaître, fidéliser et développer les donateurs existants
  • Développer et mettre en œuvre une culture proactive et continue de fidélisation et d’engagement des donateurs

Gestion des données

  • Optimiser, administrer et maintenir la base de données CRM avec rigueur et précision
  • Produire des rapports liés aux donateurs et à la collecte de fonds afin de guider les stratégies et la prise de décision

Compétences professionnelles essentielles

  • Établir et maintenir de solides relations avec une grande variété de parties prenantes.
  • Effectuer des démarches stratégiques de développement, y compris des appels à froid et le développement de nouvelles relations
  • Approcher les demandes de dons avec confiance
  • Travailler de manière proactive et avec un fort sens des responsabilités
  • Faire preuve de discrétion, de professionnalisme et d’intégrité dans toutes les interactions
  • Interagir avec respect et efficacité auprès de personnes provenant de divers horizons, y compris celles ayant des expériences de santé variées

Qualifications professionnelles

  • Solide compréhension des meilleures pratiques en collecte de fonds, fidélisation et relations avec les donateurs
  • Expérience préalable d’au moins deux ans en collecte de fonds dans un rôle lié aux dons majeurs
  • Excellentes compétences en recherche et en rédaction
  • Excellentes aptitudes en présentation et en communication publique
  • Bilinguisme complet, tant à l’écrit qu’à l’oral, en français et en anglais
  • Maîtrise des logiciels requis, incluant la suite MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  • Acrobat, etc.), ainsi qu’une expérience avec les logiciels de gestion de données et/ou les systèmes de gestion de relations clients (CRM)

Soumettre votre candidature

Veuillez faire parvenir votre CV ainsi qu’une brève lettre de motivation à Avigail Aronoff : ***email_hidden***

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